Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC
To election day71 days
Simulations200,000

Arizona 2nd District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Jonathan Nez
10%
Republican
Eli Crane
90%
ForecastLikely R
Projected margin
R+14.2
80% range
R+28.1 to R+0.3
Partisan lean
R+13.0
Tipping-point chance
0.25%
Uncertainty multiplier
1.80×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
R+13.6
Blended
R+13.6
Similar-race shift
+0.3
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
R+13.0
Elasticity
1.06
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
−2.0
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+13.9

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